H1N1 is associated with the 1918 pandemic and the 1976 epidemic in the US. Do you think big pharma was capable of creating a virus in 1918? Maybe it was really space aliens and they spray the Earth with it whenever they're swinging through this part of the galaxy.
Nutjob:
I even suspect that swine-flu is artificially created to boost shareholder value.
AT&T apparently now wants web applications -- from Skype to Google Voice -- to be treated the same way as traditional phone services. Their approach is what a former FCC chairman has called "regulatory capitalism," the practice of using regulation to block or slow down innovation. And despite AT&T's lobbying efforts, this issue has nothing to do with network neutrality or rural America. This is about outdated carrier compensation rules that are fundamentally broken and in need of repair by the FCC.
commodore64love is wrong. bitemykarma is correct but s/he was modded into oblivion:
What you describe is not capitalism, it is a free market. Capitalism is the financing of an enterprise with the expectation of a return on investment.
For instance Christopher de Haro, and Charles V financed the 1519 voyage of Ferdinand Magellan. de Haro put up the money for 1/4 share, and Chuck put up the other 3/4 of the cost of the voyage.
In other words they owned stock in Magellan's corporation, expecting to eventually receive 1/4 and 3/4 share of the spoils respectively. The same thing goes on today when we buy stock share in a corporation.
This is not meant to scare, but young, strong, and tough people are dying from H1N1. It's probably a vaccine worth getting. Even if you survive it, you could pass it to someone who won't.
You have the right to dislike the US, whatever your reasons, but the things that you are saying are stupid.
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My attitude comes from frustration. When I compile a C program and statically link it, it just works. Better yet (at least in a lot of cases) when I "compile" (in the Java sense) a Java program, it not only "just works", it does so on a great many platforms (even Windows since the courts enforced MS to comply with Sun's Java licensing agreement).
But I gave up on Perl because CPAN never worked properly on Solaris (I know about the gcc version, don't get me started). So it seems after the Perl kids grew up, the next generation adopted Python. I'm sick and fucking tired of trying to figure out if a certain "program" writen in Python need to be run with Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, or what the fuck ever, but now there seems to be a new generation for which Python is your Dad's scripting language, so they're onto Ruby.
And when the Ruby kids grow up, what's next? Can't we have some software that if it runs now, it will still run ten years from now, like Cobol, FormTran, or C?
I'll bet you consider those to be antiquated don't you? And yet programs in those languages are being run all over the world to do serious stuff, and will be for a long time, and your OS may be written in one of them.
My first computer in the 70's had an interactive BASIC interpreter that was great for playing around with programing. The scripting languages that have sprung up since them are acestors of that BASIC interpreter, and must be very educational for the younger generation, but IMHO are not suitable for production software.
They are "amateur radio operators", ie. HAMs. The same people that relay information in emergencies.
You have to take a test of radio circuit theory to get the license. In other words; radio nerds instead of computer nerds.
Of course they were using sophisticated techniques to find the landing site.
/. apparently does not want interesting stories. This one seemed like a blockbuster: London Stock Exchange to dump Microsoft-based trad...and favored Linux, but languished over the weekend, then disappeared, instead a lot of lame stuff arrives on the front page. So, I don't think it's Linux fans, controversy is not wanted here, apparently.
It was an attempt to distract from the superiority of the AMD chips at that time, especially the Opteron. What can you do when you are trying to keep X86 to 32 bits so only your Itanium is the sole 64 bit chip, when along comes AMD and creates a 64 bit x86 chip. You have no choice but to use AMD's 64 bit instruction set in your new 64 bit Pentium, AKA Xeon. Oh, oh; AMD created a memory controller far more efficient than yours, OK copy that too. Now Intel had caught up.
Data General (DG) was founded by several engineers from Digital Equipment Corporation who were frustrated with DEC's management and left to form their own company. The chief protagonists were Edson deCastro, Henry Burkhardt III, and Richard Sogge of Digital Equipment (DEC), and Herbert Richman of Fairchild Semiconductor. The company was incorporated in the state of Delaware in April 1968.
De Castro was the chief engineer in charge of the PDP-8, DEC's line of inexpensive computers that created the minicomputer market. It was designed specifically to be used in lab equipment settings; as the technology improved, it was shrunk-fit into a 19-inch rack. Many PDP-8's still operate today, decades later. de Castro, convinced he could do one better, began work on his new 16-bit design.
The result was released in 1969 as the Nova. Designed to be rack-mounted similarly to the later PDP-8 machines, it was smaller in height and ran considerably faster. Launched as "the best small computer in the world", the Nova quickly gained a huge following and made the company flush with cash, although Data General had to defend itself from misappropriation of its trade secrets[1]. With the initial success of the Nova, Data General went public in the fall of 1969. The Nova, like the [DEC}PDP-8, used a simple accumulator-based architecture. It lacked general registers and the stack-pointer functionality of the more advanced [DEC]PDP-11
I used to work on RSX-11, RT-11 and RSTS/E in the '70s. Good place to start, I thought. But this thread will never cover all of the OSes that ran on PDP11. (According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP_11#The_decline_of_the_PDP-11):
From Digital:
* BATCH-11/DOS-11
* CAPS-11 (Cassette Based Programme development System)[5]
* GAMMA-11[5]
* DSM-11
* IAS
* P/OS
* RSTS/E
* RSX-11
* RT-11
* Ultrix-11
From third parties:
* ANDOS
* CSI-DOS
* DEMOS (Soviet Union)
* Duress (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/Datalogics)[5]
* Fuzzball
* MERT[5]
* Micropower Pascal[5]
* MK-DOS
* MONECS
* MTS (Multi-Tasking System written in RTL/2 by SPL)[5]
* MUMPS
* PC11 (Decus 11-501/Pilkington)[5]
* Sphere (Infosphere - Portland Oregon 1981-87)[5]
* Softech Microsystems UCSD System with UCSD Pascal[5]
* TRAX (Transaction Processing system)[5]
* TRIPOS
* TSX-Plus
* Unix (many versions, including Version 6 Unix, Version 7 Unix, UNIX System III, and 2BSD)
* Venix (implementation/port of Unix developed by VenturCom)[5]
The Uptime-Project, collected data on uptimes from users until 1 March 2007, and the current record for longest uptime is 11 years, 303 days, 20 hours and 57 minutes on a computer running OpenVMS. Rumours mention in January 2008 that Iarnród Éireann had an OpenVMS machine up for 18 years,[1] which was restarted just for Y2K tests.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptime
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"prtdiag -v", "fmadm faulty", and dmesg are helpful on Solaris. If that's not what you're running, you could boot an OpenSolaris live CD.
Nutjob:
I even suspect that swine-flu is artificially created to boost shareholder value.
AT&T apparently now wants web applications -- from Skype to Google Voice -- to be treated the same way as traditional phone services. Their approach is what a former FCC chairman has called "regulatory capitalism," the practice of using regulation to block or slow down innovation. And despite AT&T's lobbying efforts, this issue has nothing to do with network neutrality or rural America. This is about outdated carrier compensation rules that are fundamentally broken and in need of repair by the FCC.
What you describe is not capitalism, it is a free market. Capitalism is the financing of an enterprise with the expectation of a return on investment. For instance Christopher de Haro, and Charles V financed the 1519 voyage of Ferdinand Magellan. de Haro put up the money for 1/4 share, and Chuck put up the other 3/4 of the cost of the voyage. In other words they owned stock in Magellan's corporation, expecting to eventually receive 1/4 and 3/4 share of the spoils respectively. The same thing goes on today when we buy stock share in a corporation.
Neither is Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
Just don't use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. Seriously, just use make. What's the problem?
This is not meant to scare, but young, strong, and tough people are dying from H1N1. It's probably a vaccine worth getting. Even if you survive it, you could pass it to someone who won't.
No. If that were the explanation, then they would be more likely to get any kind of flu, not just H1N1.
That's irrelevant and illogical. The reason they don't start wars is because they don't have the ability to win them. Instead, they support terrorism.
We were talking about nukes here, remember? I dont think Isreal or the US have nuked anybody lately, Korn pone.
You have the right to dislike the US, whatever your reasons, but the things that you are saying are stupid.
But I gave up on Perl because CPAN never worked properly on Solaris (I know about the gcc version, don't get me started). So it seems after the Perl kids grew up, the next generation adopted Python. I'm sick and fucking tired of trying to figure out if a certain "program" writen in Python need to be run with Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, or what the fuck ever, but now there seems to be a new generation for which Python is your Dad's scripting language, so they're onto Ruby.
And when the Ruby kids grow up, what's next? Can't we have some software that if it runs now, it will still run ten years from now, like Cobol, FormTran, or C?
I'll bet you consider those to be antiquated don't you? And yet programs in those languages are being run all over the world to do serious stuff, and will be for a long time, and your OS may be written in one of them.
My first computer in the 70's had an interactive BASIC interpreter that was great for playing around with programing. The scripting languages that have sprung up since them are acestors of that BASIC interpreter, and must be very educational for the younger generation, but IMHO are not suitable for production software.
include: Slashdot
I constantly struggle to make various Python programs work.
Why can't people just write real programs in real languages?
Remember C and Java?
Perfect for MS users.
Others expressed thanks that Microsoft isn't responsible for anything that actually involves life and death.
Exactly. You have a right to eat shit.
They are "amateur radio operators", ie. HAMs. The same people that relay information in emergencies.
You have to take a test of radio circuit theory to get the license. In other words; radio nerds instead of computer nerds.
Of course they were using sophisticated techniques to find the landing site.
and IE?
/. apparently does not want interesting stories. This one seemed like a blockbuster: London Stock Exchange to dump Microsoft-based trad... and favored Linux, but languished over the weekend, then disappeared, instead a lot of lame stuff arrives on the front page. So, I don't think it's Linux fans, controversy is not wanted here, apparently.
It was an attempt to distract from the superiority of the AMD chips at that time, especially the Opteron.
What can you do when you are trying to keep X86 to 32 bits so only your Itanium is the sole 64 bit chip, when along comes AMD and creates a 64 bit x86 chip. You have no choice but to use AMD's 64 bit instruction set in your new 64 bit Pentium, AKA Xeon.
Oh, oh; AMD created a memory controller far more efficient than yours, OK copy that too.
Now Intel had caught up.
You can call Uranus whatever you want.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General:
Data General (DG) was founded by several engineers from Digital Equipment Corporation who were frustrated with DEC's management and left to form their own company. The chief protagonists were Edson deCastro, Henry Burkhardt III, and Richard Sogge of Digital Equipment (DEC), and Herbert Richman of Fairchild Semiconductor. The company was incorporated in the state of Delaware in April 1968.
De Castro was the chief engineer in charge of the PDP-8, DEC's line of inexpensive computers that created the minicomputer market. It was designed specifically to be used in lab equipment settings; as the technology improved, it was shrunk-fit into a 19-inch rack. Many PDP-8's still operate today, decades later. de Castro, convinced he could do one better, began work on his new 16-bit design.
The result was released in 1969 as the Nova. Designed to be rack-mounted similarly to the later PDP-8 machines, it was smaller in height and ran considerably faster. Launched as "the best small computer in the world", the Nova quickly gained a huge following and made the company flush with cash, although Data General had to defend itself from misappropriation of its trade secrets[1]. With the initial success of the Nova, Data General went public in the fall of 1969. The Nova, like the [DEC}PDP-8, used a simple accumulator-based architecture. It lacked general registers and the stack-pointer functionality of the more advanced [DEC]PDP-11
I used to work on RSX-11, RT-11 and RSTS/E in the '70s. Good place to start, I thought.
But this thread will never cover all of the OSes that ran on PDP11. (According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP_11#The_decline_of_the_PDP-11):
From Digital: * BATCH-11/DOS-11 * CAPS-11 (Cassette Based Programme development System)[5] * GAMMA-11[5] * DSM-11 * IAS * P/OS * RSTS/E * RSX-11 * RT-11 * Ultrix-11
From third parties: * ANDOS * CSI-DOS * DEMOS (Soviet Union) * Duress (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/Datalogics)[5] * Fuzzball * MERT[5] * Micropower Pascal[5] * MK-DOS * MONECS * MTS (Multi-Tasking System written in RTL/2 by SPL)[5] * MUMPS * PC11 (Decus 11-501/Pilkington)[5] * Sphere (Infosphere - Portland Oregon 1981-87)[5] * Softech Microsystems UCSD System with UCSD Pascal[5] * TRAX (Transaction Processing system)[5] * TRIPOS * TSX-Plus * Unix (many versions, including Version 6 Unix, Version 7 Unix, UNIX System III, and 2BSD) * Venix (implementation/port of Unix developed by VenturCom)[5]
The Uptime-Project, collected data on uptimes from users until 1 March 2007, and the current record for longest uptime is 11 years, 303 days, 20 hours and 57 minutes on a computer running OpenVMS. Rumours mention in January 2008 that Iarnród Éireann had an OpenVMS machine up for 18 years,[1] which was restarted just for Y2K tests. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptime